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Another April 15 has arrived. To those who have been diligently working in the trenches of the tax season, we salute you!

As you turn out the lights this weekend for that long deserved rest, think about the goldmine of information that you have at your fingertips that can help your clients thrive throughout the rest of the year. Tax planning, estate planning, financial planning and wealth planning clues are scattered all throughout the IRS forms you've just completed on your clients' behalf - you just need to shift your thinking from compliance mode to analysis mode to absorb and dissect the meaning of the numbers before you.

So if April 15 is seen as a day to give the clients what the federal government says they need, consider the incredible value you will bring if the rest of the year was seen as the time to cull through all of their financial data to give clients what they really want! But take a couple of days off first - you earned it.

A new survey released yesterday by Adobe Systems Incorporated found that American taxpayers are growing more comfortable with the Internet and more than half of those surveyed plan to file their taxes electronically this year.

Criminals who stole information from a LexisNexis database in the U.S. may have accessed the names, addresses, Social Security and driver license numbers of nearly 310,000 people, the Associated Press reported.

It's no secret that many US firms are struggling to understand and comply with new rules regarding stock options. The costs of audits and additional staffing to help ensure compliance continue to rise. Businesses are starting to complain. And the federal government is starting to listen.

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